What if Jesus died some other, less brutal way?

Question

I mean, the important part is that Jesus died for our sins, right? So why did it have be so painful? Couldn't he have died in his sleep of a massive heart attack or a stroke? Maybe he could have been crushed to death by a boulder, or eaten some bad fish. Why crucifiction? I think Jesus must have been a masochist, or else he just would have hanged himself for our sins or something less painful.

Answer 1

Cuz God has such a wicked sense of humour friend.

Answer 2

Sin is painful. Dying for the sins of an entire species, to include all of those who had yet to be born, was more painful that words could ever express. In order for the penalty price to be paid for all humankind, there had to be extreme suffering. This is something that we really cannot understand because no man can die for another man's sin and no man can die for his own sin, much less the sin of an entire race. Crucifixion was the method of administering death during that period of Roman occupation. You must remember that it was God that died on the cross; therefore it was all according to God's plan. Hanging would have been suicide---a sin. How could God, who has no sin in him, commit the sin of suicide?

Answer 3

I think He died too soon, too young. I think if He would have lived a little longer,or better yet, until He was an elderly man the world will know more about him. Besides,dieing as an elderly man is more painful than dieing young because of the many diseases one can have while being old. Now that's suffering for your sins.

Answer 4

In the Old Testament days, if a person committed a sin, they had to sacrifice a lamb or a goat to have their sins forgiven. Like 'opinionated' said earlier, there has to be blood shed for the remission of sins.

Jesus allowed himself to be sacrificed, and shed his blood for all of our sins. He is known as the LAMB of God.

Answer 5

Well, back then, that was the way of punishment. Now, we have leathal injection, hanging (still in some states), and life imprisonment. Which is worse? We were told ahead of time that He would be here to show us a way in which to live. How many people took His advice?

Answer 6

Jesus had to be innocently condemned and put to death by the forces of evil, in order to successfully complete his mission.

Doing so, Satan was legitimately put out of business.

The reason his task involved so much suffering is impossible to say with certainty.

St. Anselm, a great scholar and a doctor of the church said it best:

"If man sinned with ease, is it not fitting for him to atone with difficulty?

And if he was overcome by the devil in the easiest manner possible, so as to dishonor God by sinning against him, is it not right that man, in making satisfaction for his sin, should honor God by conquering the devil with the greatest possible difficulty?

Is it not proper that, since man has departed from God as far as possible in his sin, he should make to God the greatest possible satisfaction?"

Answer 7

Question: "Why did Jesus have to experience so much suffering?"



Answer: Isaiah 52:14 declares, “Just as there were many who were appalled at Him — His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness.” Jesus suffered most severely throughout the trials, torture, and crucifixion (Matthew chapter 27, Mark chapter 15, Luke chapter 23, John chapter 19). As horrible as His physical suffering was, it was nothing compared to the spiritual suffering He went through. 2 Corinthians 5:21, "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." Jesus had the weight of the sins of the entire world on Him (1 John 2:2). It was sin that caused Jesus to cry out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). So, as brutal as Jesus' physical suffering was, it was nothing compared to His having to bear our sins - and die for our sins (Romans 5:8).



Why did Jesus have to suffer so badly? Some think that Jesus' physical torture was part of His being punished for our sins, in our place. To some extent, this is likely the case. At the same time, the torture Jesus underwent speaks more of the hatred and cruelty of humanity than it does of God's punishment for sin. Satan's absolute hatred of God and Jesus was surely a part of the motivation behind the relentless torture and abuse. Jesus' suffering is the ultimate example of how sinful man feels toward a holy God (Romans 3:10-18).



Isaiah chapter 53, verses 3 and 5 especially predict Jesus’ suffering, “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” Psalm 22:14-18 is another powerful passage predicting the suffering of the Messiah, “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”

Answer 8

With out the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.

Answer 9

It all started in Exodus:

Exo 12:5 A flock animal, a male without blemish, a yearling, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.
Exo 12:6 And it shall be for you to keep until the fourteenth day of this month. And all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings.
Exo 12:7 And they shall take from the blood, and put it on the two side doorposts and on the upper doorpost, on the houses in which they eat it.

Exo 12:7 -
The upper door post - Or lintel, Exo_12:23. This direction was understood by the Hebrews to apply only to the first Passover: it was certainly not adopted in Palestine. The meaning of the sprinkling of blood is hardly open to question. It was a representation of the offering of the life, substituted for that of the firstborn in each house, as an expiatory and vicarious sacrifice.(1)

It is interesting that if you look at the position of the blood on the doorposts, it forms a cross.

Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt.

God passed over the houses (people) who were protected by the blood.

Lev 1:5 And he shall kill the son of the herd before the face of Jehovah. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall bring near the blood and sprinkle the blood on the altar all around at the opening of the tabernacle of the congregation.

This was the sacrifice for the covering of sin. The blood of a substitute covering the sins of others.

Rom 3:23 for all sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood, as a demonstration of His righteousness through the passing over of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God,
Rom 3:26 for a demonstration of His righteousness in the present time, for His being just and justifying the one that is of the faith of Jesus.

The price for removing our sins required the bloodshed of another innocent person, Christ. It is through the shedding of His blood that our sins are forgiven.

Rom 5:9 Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him.

Eph 1:7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of deviations, according to the riches of His grace

Col 1:12 giving thanks to the Father, who has made us fit for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light,
Col 1:13 who delivered us out of the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins;
Col 1:15 who is the image of the invisible God, the First-born of all creation.

Heb 9:11 But Christ having appeared as a High Priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,
Heb 9:12 nor through the blood of goats and of calves, but through His own blood, He entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, having procured everlasting redemption.
Heb 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and goats, and ashes of a heifer sprinkling those having been defiled, sanctifies to the purity of the flesh,
Heb 9:14 by how much more the blood of Christ (who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God), will purify your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God!

It was necessary for the blood to be shed, only through the shedding of blood of a qualifying substitute could our sins be forgiven.

Answer 10

Isa (pbuh) Jesus is not dead, he is alive and in the heveans waiting so be sent back to the earth.

Answer 11

i think he had to be punished, not just die, he had to die in a way that would be pennace for every sin committted. and since the punishment then was crusifixion, thats how he died.